ACROSS
Wimbledon Men's Champion 1946 a Frenchman born in South Vietnam (5)
Commonweath Games Highjump Champion 1966 and 1970 (Aus) (7)
Brownlow Medallist 1980 was the first centre half-forward to do so (9)
The "on" side in cricket also known as the . . . side (3)
Rode Railway Stakes winners Sweet Saga 1964 and Alpine Wind 1976 (5)
In 35 tests for Australia took 104 wickets at 26.96 batting av 26.53 (7)
Geelong ruckman (300 games) represented Victoria eight times (6)
Tenpin bowling venues or large playing marbles (6)
Mare won Caulfield Cup second in Melbourne Cup 1974 (7)
First Olympic gymnast to be given a perfect 10 . . . Comanceni (5)
. . . Williams represented South Australia (football) 34 times (3)
Won 1978 Stawell Gift after being penalised a metre for breaking (9)
Wimbledon Men's Champion 1966 and US Open Champion 1965 (7)
Carlton Premiership rover 1987 and All-Australian 1986-87 (5)
DOWN
Labelled "pathetic" he played in both Adelaide AFL Premiership teams (7)
British Open Golf Champion 1975-77-80-82-83 . . . Watson (3)
Host city Olympic Games 1996 was third USA city to do so (7)
Leading by 15 mins he collapsed 100m short C'wealth Games marathon 1954 (6)
Julia won Holsteiner and Warmblood freejumping on Absolut 2003 (5)
Took World Heavyweight title from Mike Tyson Nov 1996 (TKO 11) (9)
World Skiing Champs: Maria Despas is first Aust medal winner in this event (5)
Commonwealth Games 400m Hurdles Gold Medallist 2002 (Eng) (9)
Stalwart WA batsman 1946 to 1956 45 First Class matches five 100s (7)
World Heavyweight Champion 1932 only man to fight Dempsey and Louis (7)
Finnish distance runner won 5 Gold and 3 Silver Olympic Medals 1920s (6)
Big Wes was Carlton full-back 1968 Premiership team (5)
MotoGP: Australia's Adam Fergusson rides for . . . Technik Honda team (5)
Slang horse-racing term for confidential information (3)
© RJ Grieves, Perth, Western Australia